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Rising to my knees, I place my hands on his cheeks and angle his face towards me. “You saved us.” I say it firmly, staring into his eyes. “You. Saved. Us. And I know it's probably going to take a lot of time and therapy to even begin to heal from the fear and the pain that you must be feeling—but we wouldn't all be here, together, without what you did.”
Pressing my lips to his, I pour every bit of love I have into a searing kiss. Before I pull away, I press my forehead to his.
“I love you, more than life.”
A pair of small arms snake around the back of Lukas' shoulders. Without interrupting our own embrace, she is quietly lending her own love and support. Grabbing one of her arms, I lead her around and pull her into Lukas' lap.
As the three of us hold each other, I think about how, in a perfect world, I'd be able to marry them both.
Luis
The phone rings incessantly, but Tony isn't picking up. I'm not too worried about him. He's been in some secure and undisclosed location, calling all the shots remotely. Probably from his mother's basement.
Finally, on my third call and what feels like the hundredth ring, he answers.
“Sorry man, I was on the line with—”
“You couldn't put them on hold?” I interrupt.
“No, I couldn't put them on hold. I was on the other line with the feds.”
“Wait, what? You called the feds?”
“I'm feeling out Bennet's contact. After going through even a fraction of what I'm pulling off those servers…This is even bigger than we thought. There's another lab. And now that Adley has been put out of his misery, Bennet is less likely to be directly at risk, right?”
I can't argue with that, but I'm not sure I like it.
“I haven't told him anything specific or incriminating yet, but get this, his literal job is internal investigations. He's been working on taking down some of the higher ups that were in Adley's pocket.”
“That doesn't make him trustworthy.”
“Would cleaning up your mess at the lab and passing it off as an internal job help?”
“You're serious?”
“All the loose ends aren't tied yet, but the only security feed they have shows the guards shooting employees as they exit the buildings. Adley wasn't lying when he said no one was leaving that building alive. Not to mention Adley himself shot a fleeing nurse in the back of the head. He was clearly unhinged.”
“And us?”
“You were never there.”
“Our DNA is everywhere in there, not to mention all the records of Six. If they find out about her, they might try to do their own tests or lock her up.”
“First of all, turn on the news. Second, trust me man, none of you were ever there. If we decide to trust him, there's enough crazy genetic shit and crimes against humanity without her files or anything even related to her. Including the five of you—completely erased.”
I locate a remote and turn on the television. Flipping through the channels, I find a national news station.
“Holy shit,” I hear Micah mutter, echoing my own thoughts.
The news story shows aerial footage of the warehouse lab, engulfed in flames. Along the bottom of the screen is the headline:
Medical and Pharmaceuticals Mogul Jackson Adley Confirmed Dead in Horrific Massacre
The news anchor is discussing potentially leaked information that Adley himself was the orchestrator of the massacre, suggesting that he ordered the mass shooting of employees to cover up shocking illegal activity.
“Well, you've been busy. How did the fire start?”
Tony scoffs. “Even I'm not that good. I had some help.”
